The ancient Mayan city, now known as the zone of Bonampak, is located in the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, Mexico, near the city of Yaxchilán. It offers a portrait of the life of the ancient Mayans, thanks to its mural paintings that have resisted the ravages of time.

Bonampak, whose meaning in Mayan is "Painted Walls" for its famous paintings, also contains important lintels, as well as masonry buildings, representative of this great civilization, which were built between 580 and 800 AD. c.

Below there’s a compilation of different documents that explain in detail how these murals worked, their relationship with the Mayan culture and more extra information.

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The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (2013) Mary Ellen Miller and Claudia Brittenham

• CARTER, Nicholas., HOUSTON, Stephen and Franco ROSSI
• 2020
• The Adorned Body: Mapping Ancient Maya Dress. University of Texas Press. 248 pages.
  Available online:
  https://books.google.es/books?id=MzgBEAAAQBAJ&dq=Bonampak+murals
  +jaguar+leather+hides+worn+by+elite+and+warriors&lr=&hl=es&source=gbs_
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• DIEHL, Richard
• 1989
• Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900. 244 pages.
  Available online:
  https://books.google.es/books?id=FLJxLlGkpiUC&printsec=frontc
  over&hl=es#v=onepage&q=jaguar&f=false

• HOUSTON, Stephen
• 2012
• The Good Prince: Transition, Texting and Moral Narrative in the Murals of Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2. Pages 153-175. doi: 10.1017/S0959774312000212
  Available online:
  www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/
  article/abs/good-prince-transition-texting-and-moral-narrative-in-the-murals-
  of-bonampak-chiapas-mexico/05845A5725ADD62580A10567972F18A3#
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• LVNCH, James
• 1964
• The Bonampak Murals. Art Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1. Pages 23-27. doi: 10.1080/00043249.1964.10794570
  Available online:
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00043249.1964.1079457
  0?needAccess=true

• MAGALONI, Diana., NEWMAN, R., CASTAÑO, V. and Pancella FRUH
• 1995
• An Analysis of Mayan Painting Techniques at Bonampal, Chiapas, Mexico. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc, Vol. 352. Pages 381-388.
  Available online:
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mrs-online-proceedings-library-
  archive/article/abs/an-analysis-of-mayan-painting-techniques-at-bonampak-
  chiapas-mexico/1F945203E1E78AB6CD51FBBC1A4AB39C

• MARTÍNEZ, Rocío
• 2005
• La Danza en los Murales de Bonampak. 30 pages.
  Available online:
  http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/liminar/v3n2/2007-8900-liminar-3-02-112.pdf

• MATHEWS, Peter
• 2005
• Notas sobre la secuencia dinástica de Bonampak, Parte 1. 16 pages
  Available online:
  www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/RT05/Bonampak.pdf

• MILLER, Mary and BRITTENHAM, Claudia
• 2012
• Presentación del libro: The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak. American Anthropology, Vol. 117, No. 4. Pages 855-856
  Available online:
  www.pinturamural.esteticas.unam.mx/sites/default/files/EVELAZQUEZ.pdf

• OSMANAGICH, Sam
• 2019
• The Mayan Cosmic Mission. The murals of Bonampak. 211 pages.
  Available online:
  http://booksbydrsam.com/books/the-mayan-comsmic-mission.pdf

• PINCEMIN-Deliberos, Sophia. and ROSAS, Mauricio
• 2014
• Propuesta de studio semiótico para los murals de Bonampak, Chiapas, México. LiminaR. Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, Vol. 12, No. 1. Pages 17-35
  Available online:
  www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/liminar/v12n1/v12n1a2.pdf

• UNIVERSIDAD RAFAEL LANDIVAR
• 2009
• Bonampak. 36 pages.
  Available online:
  http://biblio3.url.edu.gt/Libros/2012/BONAMPAK.pdf

https://maya.nmai.si.edu/es/gallery/bonampak
General information.

https://pueblosoriginarios.com/meso/maya/sitios/bonampak_murales.html
Information and pictures

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-murals-of-bonampak-chiapas-mexico-171611
Studies in the Bonampak murals

First posted December, 2022.